VOLVO: This car is alleged to have been involved in three hIt and run incidents in Byron Bay early Saturday, two involving parked cars and the third seriously injuring a four-year-old girl.TWEEDBYRON LOCAL AREA COMMAND

Kiwi hit-and-run accused ordered to surrender her passport

A NEW Zealand driver who allegedly hit a four-year-old girl while driving near Byron Bay lighthouse on Saturday morning and fled the scene, has been ordered to surrender her passport before being granted bail so she can't fly home today.

Information on Williams's bail application indicated she was on holidays visiting relatives in Australia and was due to return to New Zealand today.

She has also been ordered not to apply for a passport while she is on bail.

Her sister, a school teacher from Burleigh Heads, signed the bail forms agreeing to forfeit $2000 if Williams did not appear at court.

Williams, who was represented by her solicitor Tom Ivey, was excused from appearing at Tweed Heads Local Court yesterday by Magistrate Michael Dakin after she sent the court a letter explaining her absence.

Police allege Williams was driving a light blue Tasmanian-registered Volvo sedan between 6.45am and 6.46am when she allegedly hit four-year-old Rio Sims and her mother, who were walking along Lighthouse Rd at Byron Bay.

The girl was thrown down a steep embankment into bushes, sustaining a fractured right leg.